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G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero

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An elite team of soldiers thwart the evil Cobra organization's desire for world domination at every turn, cleverly stopping them from controlling the weather, creating unstoppable weapons, and genetically engineering super-warriors.

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Episodes

4 seasons · 139 episodes
Season 165 ep. · 1983–1985
  1. Episode 1: The M.A.S.S. Device: The Cobra Strikes (1)

    Sep 12, 1983 · 30 min

    Cobra seizes control of a new satellite for use with a new transportation device, and Duke is captured in the attempt. The G.I. Joe team learns that they must build their own device to defeat Cobra.

  2. Episode 2: The M.A.S.S. Device: Slave of the Cobra Master (2)

    Sep 13, 1983 · 30 min

    The Joes travel to the arctic to retrieve rare minerals to fuel their MASS device, but Cobra ambushes them, and Snake Eyes is presumed dead. Duke manages to escape the Cobra base with the help of a slave girl, but he is injured and cannot remember the base's location.

  3. Episode 3: The M.A.S.S. Device: The Worms of Death (3)

    Sep 14, 1983 · 30 min

    Snake Eyes returns home with the help of a wolf and a blind man. The Joes and Cobras battling for undersea elements must join forces to escape giant tubeworms on the ocean floor.

  4. Episode 4: The M.A.S.S. Device: Duel in the Devil's Cauldron (4)

    Sep 15, 1983 · 30 min

    G.I. Joe tries to throw off Cobra with a false surrender while mounting a mission to the Ring of Fire for the third element. Destro sabotages the operation but is pursued by Scarlett.

  5. Episode 5: The M.A.S.S. Device: A Stake in the Serpent's Heart (5)

    Sep 16, 1983 · 30 min

    Destro returns to Cobra base and seizes control of the operation from the Commander. The now-captured Scarlett and the slave girl organize a slave revolt. Duke's memories under sensory deprivation lead the Joes to the Cobra base where a final battle takes place. Cobra Commander is captured and taken to prison, but Destro escapes. The battle is over but not the war!

  6. Episode 6: The Revenge of Cobra: In the Cobra's Pit (1)

    Sep 10, 1984 · 30 min

    A Cobra attack on a Joe convoy results in the capture of Duke and Snake Eyes and the theft of a laser core which Destro uses to power his new weapon, the Weather Dominator. Meanwhile, Cobra Commander is briefly captured but rescued by Zartan.

  7. Episode 7: The Revenge of Cobra: The Vines of Evil (2)

    Sep 11, 1984 · 30 min

    Flint and Mutt, stranded by the weather dominator, hire Shipwreck to ferry them out of Cobra territory. Meanwhile, the Joes develop an energy mirror to fight the dominator's attacks, but Destro smashes them with a hailstorm. During the battle, Destro's weapon breaks, and the three pieces scatter over the globe.

  8. Episode 8: The Revenge of Cobra: The Palace of Doom (3)

    Sep 12, 1984 · 30 min

    As Flint, Mutt, and Shipwreck return to Joe Headquarters, the Joes and Cobras head to the Island of No Return and the jungle Palace of Doom to retrieve parts of the weather dominator.

  9. Episode 9: The Revenge of Cobra: Battle on the Roof of the World (4)

    Sep 13, 1984 · 30 min

    As G.I. Joe and Cobra race to retrieve the three parts, Zartan ensures that each side acquires one piece, and then steals the laser core at the Roof of the World.

  10. Episode 10: The Revenge of Cobra: Amusement Park of Terror (5)

    Sep 14, 1984 · 30 min

    Cobra steals the Joes' piece of the dominator and assaults Zartan's base. Now in possession of all three pieces, Destro seeks to rebuild the weather dominator. The Joes locate the Cobra Temple and attack it.

  11. Episode 11: The Pyramid of Darkness: The Further Adventures of G.I. Joe (1)

    Sep 16, 1985 · 30 min

    Cobra briefly attacks a Joe shuttle launch long enough to load it with its own forces. Shipwreck and Snake Eyes are lost in Cobra territory, and Zartan uses the shuttle to commandeer a space station and destroy Joe Headquarters from space. Meanwhile, Cobra Commander reveals a plan to deprive most of the world of electricity.

  12. Episode 12: The Pyramid of Darkness: Rendezvous in the City of the Dead (2)

    Sep 17, 1985 · 30 min

    With G.I. Joe headquarters nearly destroyed, the Joes establish a temporary base on the USS Flagg. Joes on the space station try to warn the team of Cobra's plan to plant cubes at strategic locations to create an electricity-inhibiting pyramid over the northern hemisphere.

  13. Episode 13: The Pyramid of Darkness: Three Cubes to Darkness (3)

    Sep 18, 1985 · 30 min

    The Joes rush to prevent Cobra from planting its huge cubes as Shipwreck and Snake Eyes try to evade detection.

  14. Episode 14: The Pyramid of Darkness: Chaos in the Sea of Lost Souls (4)

    Sep 19, 1985 · 30 min

    Quick Kick joins Alpine and Bazooka, and the Crimson Twins turn the tables on Cobra Commander by taking control of the space station and the Pyramid of Darkness.

  15. Episode 15: The Pyramid of Darkness: Knotting Cobra's Coils (5)

    Sep 20, 1985 · 30 min

    As the Cobra leaders struggle for control of their organization, Quick Kick and Shipwreck lead the Joes in an assault on Cobra forces to destroy their pyramid-creating abilities.

  16. Episode 16: Countdown for Zartan

    Sep 23, 1985 · 30 min

    Cobra kidnaps a French scientist named Dr. Emil Mettier, and Zartan replaces him before he arrives at the World Wide Defense Center to complete their database on terrorism. Spirit is suspicious of the doctor, and when he investigates, he is confronted, then captured by Storm Shadow. Freedom escapes, and leads Lady Jaye, Recondo, Doc, Gung-Ho and Stalker back to the Defense Center, only to discover that Zartan has replaced the doctor and has set up a bomb. While the Joes search for the bomb, Gung-Ho locks Zartan in a prison cell in plain view of Zartan's countdown watch, which unbeknownst to Zartan, Gung-Ho has set it two minutes ahead. Zartan is fooled, and reveals the location in time for the bomb to be disarmed. Zartan escapes, and Spirit and the real Dr. Mettier are saved from death by laughing gas by Storm Shadow. Cobra launches one more futile attack, the Joes counter it, and all's right with the world.

  17. Episode 17: Red Rocket's Glare

    Sep 24, 1985 · 30 min

    Extensive Enterprises uses biker gangs to terrorize Red Rocket diners, then buys them back at a lower price and replaces the diners' rocket props with real rockets. But Roadblock's family, unaware of EE's connections to Cobra, refuses to sell their restaurant.

  18. Episode 18: Satellite Down

    Sep 25, 1985 · 30 min

    When Cobra uses a tractor beam to steal a spy satellite recently placed in space by the Joes, Breaker forces the satellite to crash in the jungles of Africa, but a tribe of hominid Primords complicates Joe and Cobra's efforts to recover the technology.

  19. Episode 19: Cobra Stops the World

    Sep 26, 1985 · 30 min

    Cobra attacks crucial oil derricks, pipelines, and tankers, seeking to control the world's fuel supplies. But G.I. Joe use Cobra Commander's remote-control attacks to pinpoint his location.

  20. Episode 20: Jungle Trap

    Sep 27, 1985 · 30 min

    Cobra kidnaps scientist Dr. Shakur in order to harness the energy of Earth's core and cause volcanic eruptions, but the Joes work through a number of traps to raid Cobra's jungle base and destroy Cobra's newest weapon.

  21. Episode 21: Cobra's Creatures

    Sep 30, 1985 · 30 min

    Mutt, Junkyard, & Ripcord are kidnapped by Cobra, so that the evil scientist, Dr. Lucifer, can test his new invention, High Freq, a device which controls the minds of animals and insects, on Junkyard. Cobra use it to gain control of an army of animals to take over the world, and send Junkyard hunting after Mutt. In exchange for High Freq, Cobra agrees to break Dr. Lucifer's love, Dr. Attilla, out of jail. GI Joe learns of this, and has Scarlett pose as Attilla, but it's obvious to Lucifer she is not Attilla, and Scarlett is captured. Snake-Eyes and Spirit come to the rescue, using Timber and Freedom to sneak into Cobra's jungle castle and rescue Ripcord and Scarlet, and stop High Freq.

  22. Episode 22: The Funhouse

    Oct 1, 1985 · 30 min

    Flint, Dusty, Bazooka, Alpine, and others have to break into a temple to stop Cobra from its next plan to take over the world. When the temple turns out to be a fun house with obstacles of death, the Joes have to find their way to Cobra Commander and save the day!

  23. Episode 23: Twenty Questions

    Oct 2, 1985 · 30 min

    Investigative reporter Hector Ramirez believes that Cobra is not a real threat and that G.I. Joe is a drain on taxpayers' money. But Shipwreck takes him on an unauthorized mission into Cobra territory to prove their danger.

  24. Episode 24: The Greenhouse Effect

    Oct 3, 1985 · 30 min

    A Crimson Guard steals a container filled with experimental rocket fuel, causing plants to grow to gargantuan sizes. Destro convinces Cobra Commander that the plants could be used in combat. Harvey 15 Bullock 6

  25. Episode 25: Haul Down the Heavens

    Oct 4, 1985 · 30 min

    The Joes travel to the arctic regions at the top of the world in order to stop Cobra from using the Aurora Borealis to melt the ice and flood coastal cities around the world.

  26. Episode 26: Synthoid Conspiracy (1)

    Oct 7, 1985 · 30 min

    Cobra attempts to cripple the Joes from within by replacing leaders and committee members with artificial beings known as synthoids. The synthoids cut G. I. Joe's budget and eventually order the team to disband.

  27. Episode 27: Synthoid Conspiracy (2)

    Oct 8, 1985 · 30 min

    When Destro discovers a synthoid of himself, he aids the Joes in defeating Cobra's synthoid plot.

  28. Episode 28: The Phantom Brigade

    Oct 9, 1985 · 30 min

    Cobra Commander recruits an elderly Gypsy woman to use three small artifacts, which allow them to command three ghosts to attack the Joes. The Baroness and a phantom World War One pilot help the Joes recover the artifacts.

  29. Episode 29: Lights! Camera! Cobra!

    Oct 10, 1985 · 30 min

    Movie producer wants the real G.I. Joes to star in his movie about them after finding actors to be too unrealistic.

  30. Episode 30: Cobra's Candidate

    Oct 11, 1985 · 30 min

    Cobra backs a candidate for mayor and uses street thugs to intimidate voters and drum up public sympathy for Cobra's would-be mayor. The gang turns on Cobra when a brother of one of the youths is nearly burned in a fire.

  31. Episode 31: Money to Burn

    Oct 14, 1985 · 30 min

    Cobra creates a machine that destroys all the money in the country leaving all its citizens vitually penniless.

  32. Episode 32: Operation Mind Menace

    Oct 15, 1985 · 30 min

    Flash, Airborne, and several other Joes discover that Cobra has amplified the psionic powers of some civilians for use as living weapons; one of the captives is Airborne's telekinetic brother.

  33. Episode 33: Battle for the Train of Gold

    Oct 16, 1985 · 30 min

    Cobra steals the gold stored at Fort Knox and begins moving it out with a bullet train. When the Joes' equipment is destroyed in a surprise attack, they must use horses to stop the train.

  34. Episode 34: Cobra Soundwaves

    Oct 17, 1985 · 30 min

    Cobra develops a powerful sonic weapon and begins testing it on a country in the Middle East. An Arabian prince assists the Joes.

  35. Episode 35: Where the Reptiles Roam

    Oct 18, 1985 · 30 min

    Cobra purchases a dude ranch through one of its dummy corporations, intending to control a nearby solar power station. G. I. Joe travels to the ranch to flush out the Cobras.

  36. Episode 36: The Gamesmaster

    Oct 21, 1985 · 30 min

    A bored game player decides to have members of both G.I.Joe and Cobra become part of his newest and most dangerous game where they are the victims.

  37. Episode 37: Lasers in the Night

    Oct 22, 1985 · 30 min

    Quick Kick's girlfriend Amber breaks into G.I. Joe Headquarters with the intent of joining the team, and Cobra Commander steals a prototype laser device to carve his likeness on the moon.

  38. Episode 38: The Germ

    Oct 23, 1985 · 30 min

    A Cobra spy steals a deadly bacteria along with an experimental growth serum and accidently creates a living, growing and monstrous terror. G.I. Joe must use an orchard of apples to destroy it.

  39. Episode 39: The Viper is Coming

    Oct 24, 1985 · 30 min

    The ""viper"" is making phone calls leading the Joes to stopping all of Cobra's plans of domination. But one question remains, who is the ""viper""?!

  40. Episode 40: Spell of the Siren

    Oct 25, 1985 · 30 min

    The Baroness discovers a conch shell whose song hypnotizes men. She uses the shell to seize control of Cobra and capture most of the Joes. One of the Crimson Twins aids Scarlett, Lady Jaye, and Cover Girl in rescuing their companions.

  41. Episode 41: Cobra Quake

    Oct 28, 1985 · 30 min

    Cobra decides to test a new earthquake-causing weapon to disrupt a Japan peace conference. It is up to Quick Kick, Bazooka, and their trainees to stop Cobra.

  42. Episode 42: Captives of Cobra (1)

    Oct 29, 1985 · 30 min

    Cobra kidnaps relatives of the Joe team and uses mind-control technology to turn the Joes' families against them. Their goal is to steal highly unstable explosive crystals.

  43. Episode 43: Captives of Cobra (2)

    Oct 30, 1985 · 30 min

    As the Joes and their families are endangered by the highly explosive crystals, Scarlett and others try to disable the mind-control center.

  44. Episode 44: Bazooka Saw a Sea Serpent

    Oct 31, 1985 · 30 min

    Cobra unleashes an enormous mechanical sea-serpent that devours any seacraft it comes across, enslaves its captives and grows biggers the more it eats.

  45. Episode 45: Excalibur

    Nov 1, 1985 · 30 min

    Storm Shadow steals the sword Excalibur from The Lady Of The Lake. The Joes help her get it back.

  46. Episode 46: Worlds Without End (1)

    Nov 4, 1985 · 30 min

    The G.I. Joe team gets sent to another dimension in which Cobra took over the world.

  47. Episode 47: Worlds Without End (2)

    Nov 5, 1985 · 30 min

    The G.I. Joe team gets sent to another dimension in which Cobra took over the world.

  48. Episode 48: Eau de Cobra

    Nov 6, 1985 · 30 min

    An ancient Babylonian manuscript on secret potions is stolen from the British Museum. Meanwhile, Zartan leads Cobra troopers on a search for a rare fungus to help create an irrestible perfume to make a famous Greek shipping tycoon fall prey to the Baroness' charm and put his entire task force in Cobra's control.

  49. Episode 49: Cobra Claws Are Coming to Town

    Nov 7, 1985 · 30 min

    Cobra makes a generous donation to the Joes' toy drive: a battalion of Cobra troops, miniaturized to look like toys. Once inside Joe Headquarters, the Cobra forces sabotage the defenses, open the gates, and let the rest of the Cobra forces inside. The Joes have to use Cobra's vehicles to stop Cobra's attack on the city using the Joe's own vehicles.

  50. Episode 50: An Eye for an Eye

    Nov 8, 1985 · 30 min

    A civilian's home is destroyed during a battle between G.I. Joe and Cobra, and he breaks into G.I. Joe Headquarters to seek revenge against Cobra.

  51. Episode 51: The Gods Below

    Nov 11, 1985 · 30 min

    A mission to rescue an archeologist from Cobra's clutches leads the Joes on a strange supernatural journey through the tunnel of an ancient Pharaoh's tomb to a confrontation with Osiris, the Egyptain god of the dead.

  52. Episode 52: Primordial Plot

    Nov 12, 1985 · 30 min

    Cobra manages to breed dinosaurs with stolen DNA specimens from recently discovered dinosaur fossils. With the new reptilian help, Cobra plans to terrorize civilation.

  53. Episode 53: Flint's Vacation

    Nov 13, 1985 · 30 min

    When Flint goes to visit relatives in a small community by the sea, he learns that Cobra forces have set up the town as a mind-controlling base. By night, Cobra controls the residents and the citizens become an army of slave laborers, forced to construct a secret underwater base.

  54. Episode 54: Hearts and Cannons

    Nov 14, 1985 · 30 min

    A Joe transport plane is caught in a storm, forcing the pilot to ditch his cargo, a valuable Mauler tank, over the desert. Dusty and Footloose volunteer to stay with the tank until it can be retrieved. They inadvertently parachute onto a Cobra proving ground and discover the evil organization's latest innovation: a metal alloy that's impervious to any conventional weapon! With tanks and planes constructed of this alloy, Cobra could attack the Joe team – or anyone else – without fear. With a battalion of Cobras hot on their heels, can Dusty and Footloose survive the track across the hostile desert to warn the Joes?

  55. Episode 55: Memories of Mara

    Nov 15, 1985 · 30 min

    Shipwreck falls for a former Cobra agent Mara who had been tranformed into a water-breathing human/fish hybrid.

  56. Episode 56: The Traitor (1)

    Nov 25, 1985 · 30 min

    Dusty's mother has become very sick, and Duke orders Dusty to go home. When Dusty finds out his mother is having financial problems he turns to Tomax and Xamot for money, even if it means giving out G.I. Joe classified information!

  57. Episode 57: The Traitor (2)

    Nov 26, 1985 · 30 min

    G.I.Joe finds out Dusty is the traitor giving out classified information, and they order him to go to jail! Cobra springs him out, but what will happen when Dusty can sense the G.I. Joe's every move, and steals top secret chemicals to destroy G.I. Joe once and for all?!

  58. Episode 58: Pit of Vipers

    Nov 27, 1985 · 30 min

    G.I. Joe is placed under the command of a new computer, Watchdog, which directs Joes to Cobra targets. The computer is under Cobra's control, being used to spread Joe forces thin and leave headquarters vulnerable to attack.

  59. Episode 59: The Wrong Stuff

    Nov 28, 1985 · 30 min

    Cobra uses a shuttle to steal all communication satellites. That means the only television network available is the Cobra Network Television which provides programs promoting their social messages such as Father's No Beast and new endings to classic movies. G.I. Joe first send three Joes up in Skystrikers powered by rocket boosters to take out Cobra's satellite. They discover that it is really a space station and are blasted back down to earth. Next they have a space training program to select a group of Joes to go back up. Their Skystrikers are destroyed again by the Space Station, but the group sneaks inside. Being better trained, they defeat the Dreadnoks and destroy the Space Station, escaping in a Cobra Shuttle, thus saving the wonderful world of television.

  60. Episode 60: The Invaders

    Nov 29, 1985 · 30 min

    The Joes join forces with a Soviet operation team called ""The October Guard"" to save the world from what seems to be an invasion from outer space. But what is it about this flying saucer threat that seems so daunting? Do the space creatures really exist?

  61. Episode 61: Cold Slither

    Dec 2, 1985 · 30 min

    Cobra stakes out a rock concert & uses a rock group to put subliminal messages into the minds of the audience. When the Joe team breaks up their plans, they even get into the act by performing their theme song as ""The Average Joe Band"".

  62. Episode 62: The Great Alaskan Land Rush

    Dec 3, 1985 · 30 min

    When the last surviving heir of the Russian Imperial Alaskan Colony Company shows up and claims to own Alaska, the Joes suspect it is a Cobra plot to wrench away America's largest state. The only way to disapprove the claim is for the Joes to go to Alaska and find the colony's Imperial Seal. Three problems: the seal has been missing for over a hundred years, the Russians are looking for the seal so they can reclaim Alaska, and Cobra is determined to stop them both!

  63. Episode 63: Skeletons in the Closet

    Dec 11, 1985 · 30 min

    Lady J receives a strange message from England, informing her she is the heir to an ancient manor. When she arrives, she finds herself thrust into a sinister mystery involving a strange hooded cult, secret passages, and the truth behind Destro's silver mask.

  64. Episode 64: There's No Place Like Springfield (1)

    Dec 12, 1985 · 30 min

    Cobra drugs Shipwreck to make him think he is in his hometown of Springfield, 6 years in the future. Cobra is vanquished forever, G.I.Joe is disbanded, he is married to his lost sweetheart, Mara (who is cured of her aquatic transformatin) and they have a daghter.

  65. Episode 65: There's No Place Like Springfield (2)

    Dec 13, 1985 · 30 min

    Shipwreck discovers that he is really in a facsimile of Springfield on the island of Temple Alpha during the present and finds out that it's people are really synthoids.

Season 230 ep. · 1986
  1. Episode 1: Arise, Serpentor, Arise! (1)

    Sep 15, 1986 · 30 min

    A surprise attack by Cobra, using the new BATs, reveals that the Joes have gotten sloppy. General Hawk asks Sergeant Slaughter to help whip the team back into shape. Meanwhile, a series of dreams prompt Dr. Mindbender to concoct a plan to build a new Cobra leader from the DNA of long-dead conquerors. A package downed Night Raven reveals that Zartan has been asked to expand his team of Dreadnoks so he turns to his siblings, Zandar and Zarana for help, and the Joes investigate and discover the plan, only to be cornered by Thrasher and his Thunder Machine.

  2. Episode 2: Arise, Serpentor, Arise! (2)

    Sep 16, 1986 · 30 min

    The Joes send teams out to guard the tombs on Zartan's list, but each team is defeated in turn: by Zarana in Egypt, the Crimson Twins in Paris, the Dreadnoks in the Yucatan, and the Baroness in Transylvania. Duke's team and the Oktober Guard are in a standoff with BATs while defending the tomb of Ivan the Terrible.

  3. Episode 3: Arise, Serpentor, Arise! (3)

    Sep 17, 1986 · 30 min

    Cobra takes DNA from the tombs of Ivan the Terrible and Alexander the Great. Sergeant Slaughter retrieves a DNA pack from Cobra's raid on Sun Tzu's tomb, and from it the Joes surmise that Cobra is building a new breed of soldiers. Dr. Mindbender intends to use Slaughter's DNA as a replacement, and so feigns defeat as a ploy to retrieve the sarcophagus of Genghis Khan and capture Slaughter.

  4. Episode 4: Arise, Serpentor, Arise! (4)

    Sep 18, 1986 · 30 min

    Cobra Commander sabotages Dr. Mindbender's first experiment, and it rises as a hideous monster. Sergeant Slaughter briefly escapes, then is recaptured but manages to destroy his DNA sample. The second attempt is successful, and Serpentor is created. Meanwhile, a Joe search party is sent to Cobra Island to rescue Slaughter and learn more about Cobra's plans.

  5. Episode 5: Arise, Serpentor, Arise! (5)

    Sep 19, 1986 · 30 min

    Seargent Slaughter and the rescue team escape Cobra Island, but Serpentor captures Washington D.C. just as the Joes learn about the new leader. But Serpentor's lack of experience in modern warfare puts Cobra at a disadvantage when G.I. Joe stages a counterattack.

  6. Episode 6: Last Hour to Doomsday

    Sep 25, 1986 · 30 min

    Lady Jaye disguises herself as the Baroness in order to learn about a Cobra weapon created to form whirlpools and tidal waves.

  7. Episode 7: Computer Complications

    Sep 26, 1986 · 30 min

    When the Joes seek to recover a sample of anti-matter from a sunken ship, Zarana is sent to their headquarters to sabotage the operation. She and Mainframe discover they have feelings for each other. In the aftermath of a battle, the USS Flagg is sunk.

  8. Episode 8: Sink the Montana

    Sep 29, 1986 · 30 min

    An aging admiral learns that his ship is to be scrapped, and he turns to Cobra for help. Cobra renders his ship impervious to electronic vessels, so G.I. Joe must use the two-hundred-year-old USS Constitution to defeat him.

  9. Episode 9: Let's Play Soldier

    Sep 30, 1986 · 30 min

    Cobra discovers an Asian tree sap that brainwashes people, and uses it to enslave the native population. Leatherneck must care for four orphans while the other Joes try to prevent Cobra from marketing the sap as chewing gum.

  10. Episode 10: Once Upon a Joe

    Oct 1, 1986 · 30 min

    When an orphanage is accidentally damaged during a battle, Shipwreck and other members from G.I. Joe volunteer to help repair it. While doing so, Shipwreck is dragged into telling the children a fairy tale...a typically cockeyed Shipwreck extravaganza!

  11. Episode 11: The Million Dollar Medic

    Oct 2, 1986 · 30 min

    Bree Van Mark, a cute wealthy woman, develops a crush on Lifeline after he rescues her and her father from a sinking yacht during a battle between G.I. Joe and Cobra. Lifeline discovers that Cobra is after Bree's father, a wealthy industrialist whose holding include a defense company. But the Joes think that Bree is working for Cobra since some of her gifts, including a gold plated helicopter, have backfires. She flies off in a Tomahawk taking Lifeline with her. They head to a cabin in the Rockies and are followed by Cobra. Lifeline, who is a pacifist, must fend off Cobra until the rest of the Joes arrives.

  12. Episode 12: Cobrathon

    Oct 6, 1986 · 30 min

    Cobra stages a telethon to raise money for a computer virus that will bring down all the computer systems in the world, as the Joes try to rescue Sci Fi and Lifeline...

  13. Episode 13: The Rotten Egg

    Oct 7, 1986 · 30 min

    Leatherneck attends graduation ceremonies at a new academy and discovers it run by former enemy Buck McCann, who is loyal to Cobra. Leatherneck must foil McCann's plan to destroy Parris Island Marine Academy.

  14. Episode 14: Glamour Girls

    Oct 8, 1986 · 30 min

    Madame Vail (voice- Mary McDonald Lewis) agrees to sell her youth transference machine, which makes people young (and beautiful), in return for kidnapping some of the world's top models, who's youth and beauty will be transferred to the machine's user. One of these models is Low Light's sister, Una...

  15. Episode 15: Iceberg Goes South

    Oct 9, 1986 · 30 min

    The Joes visit an arctic region where Icebergs Girlfriend is collecting samples of animals tissue for her Uncles research at the Tropadome. Icebergs goes to the Trapadome only to be captured by Doctor Mindbenders new mutant animal army...

  16. Episode 16: The Spy Who Rooked Me

    Oct 13, 1986 · 30 min

    International superspy Matthew Burke volunteers his services in helping the Joes transport nerve gas to a safe facility.

  17. Episode 17: Grey Hairs and Growing Pains

    Oct 14, 1986 · 30 min

    Cobra steals Madame Versalles youth treatment. The Joes try to figure out why and that leads them to the Ageless Care Spa, where lady Jaye, Mainframe and Dial Tone are turned into seven year olds...

  18. Episode 18: My Brother's Keeper

    Oct 15, 1986 · 30 min

    Sergeant Slaughter accompanies Sci-Fi to a science fiction convention, where Dr. Mindbender recruits a handicapped scientist to repair his latest weapon. Mindbender's false promises to enable the scientist to walk again lead him to walk all over his brother.

  19. Episode 19: My Favorite Things

    Oct 16, 1986 · 30 min

    Wet-Suit and Leatherneck have never, ever got along but their heated rivalry must take a backseat when Serpentor begins collecting artifacts from his former lives to gain power, and Leatherneck is poisoned trying to stop him. Wet-Suit has to prove he doesn't have any hard feelings for Leatherneck, as he and Lifeline risk their lives trying to recover an antidote from Serpentor's blood.

  20. Episode 20: Raise the Flagg!

    Oct 20, 1986 · 30 min

    The Joes stumble upon an oil platform being used by Cobra to try to salvage the anti-matter pod that went down with the USS Flagg and the Cobra helicarrier. The Joes investigate, followed by Zartan and the Dreadknocks, but both teams are captured by an insane Cobra cook named LaCar...

  21. Episode 21: Ninja Holiday

    Oct 22, 1986 · 30 min

    Sergeant Slaughter is captured by Cobra Commander and goes through a series of blood sports with the prize being to assassinate Serpentor...

  22. Episode 22: G.I. Joe and the Golden Fleece

    Oct 27, 1986 · 30 min

    There is a Joe/Cobra battle over the Suez Canal when a spacecraft flies overhead and drops a glowing coil. When Joe and Cobra teams are dispatched to investigate, they are sent back to Ancient Greece...

  23. Episode 23: The Most Dangerous Thing in the World

    Oct 29, 1986 · 30 min

    Cobra takes advantage of General Hawk going to a NATO meeting in Europe and infiltrates the Department Of Defense's computers and promotes Lifeline, Dial Tone and Shipwreck (who's not even in the army) all to the rank of Colonel. The three can't cooperate and are not quite officer material which creates utter pandemonium at G.I. Joe Headquarters. Cobra capitalizes on the situation and attacks a research lab near the Joes' base. The Joes are defeated easily and fall back to Joe HQ. Hawk arrives in the nick of time and organizes a counter offensive, pushing Cobra back.

  24. Episode 24: Nightmare Assault

    Oct 30, 1986 · 30 min

    All of the Joes are having nightmare involving a huge snake attacking them. At first they feel that it is due to the stress of the situation. As the nightmares continue, it begins to affect the Joes performance fighting Cobra. In fact, Cobra is controlling the Joes' dreams in an effort to disable them...

  25. Episode 25: Second Hand Emotions

    Oct 31, 1986 · 30 min

    A group of Joes are attending Lifeline's sister's wedding while other Joes are at a nearby weapons depot testing new armor. The Dreadnoks are able to attach small receivers to the back of the Joes' necks and capture Roadblock. Dr. Mindbender uses an organ to send signals to the receivers that controls the Joes emotions...

  26. Episode 26: Joe's Night Out

    Nov 10, 1986 · 30 min

    Wet Suit, Leatherneck, Dial Tone and their dates attend the grand opening of a trendy new night club. The club turns out to be on a Cobra rocket and is sent into orbit around earth. Serpentor demands that Dr. Mullaney surrender himself and his nitrogen fuel engine over to Cobra or they will detonate the club. Wet Suit goes outside the club and with Leatherneck's help, disables the bombs. Meanwhile, Dr. Mullaney surrenders to Cobra. The Joes use the Nitrogen engine to bring the Club back to Earth and Dr. Mullaney escapes, when all of the Cobra jets with the new engines crash thanks to the unstable Nitrogen fuel, turning all the Cobra jets into fire bombs.

  27. Episode 27: Not a Ghost of a Chance

    Nov 13, 1986 · 30 min

    Lady Jaye and Hawk are on the tv show Twenty Questions (hosted by Hector Remerez(voice- Neil Ross)) debating with Cobra Comm, Serpentor and Dr. Mindbender whether or not Cobra shot down a prototype jet, the Ghost. Meanwhile, both Joe and Cobra forces search for the two pilots who ejected...

  28. Episode 28: Sins of Our Fathers

    Nov 18, 1986 · 30 min

    Cobra Commander tries to communicate with the creature in the pit at Destro's ancestral home in Scotland and fails. Meanwhile, Dial Tone is discharged from the Joes and is hired to work on a communications project that turns out to be communicating with the creature. Flint is sent to spy on Dial Tone in disguise. Dial Tone gets the machine to work and Cobra Commander tells it to destroy Serpentor...

  29. Episode 29: In the Presence of Mine Enemies

    Nov 19, 1986 · 30 min

    Slipstream in his Conquest intercepts a Cobra message, which contains an important command code. A squadron of Night Raven are sent after him. He and one of the Night Ravens crash land on an remote island Cobra base. The Stratoviper, a lady named Raven, is injured and not very friendly towards Slipstream. But when BATs land on the island and start firing on both of them, the are forced to team up and enter the abandoned Cobra base, with Doctor Mindbender watching...

  30. Episode 30: Into Your Tent I Will Silently Creep

    Nov 20, 1986 · 30 min

    The Joes are highly annoyed by Cross Country's country music are glad when his tape deck is destroyed during a Cobra battle. When his new tape deck is stolen back at HQ, he intends to find out what's going on and sets a trap. He spots a robotic rat stealing the tape deck and he follows it to a Cobra meeting of the Coil, a group against Serpentor lead by Cobra Commander...

Season 324 ep. · 1989–1991
  1. Episode 1: Operation Dragonfire (1)

    Sep 2, 1989 · 30 min

    G.I. Joe is acting as the Peace Corps helping a poor village, when they met journalist/cameraman Leonard Michaels aka Scoop who joins the Joes. Cobra attacks a monastery to get the secret to the Dragonfire, a mysterious energy in the earth. Destro dumps the Baroness for Zarana, so Baroness plots with Gnawgahyde to return Cobra Commander to human form to get revenge. Scoop turns out to be a Crimson Guard commander spying on GI Joe...

  2. Episode 2: Operation Dragonfire (2)

    Sep 17, 1989 · 30 min

    Cobra has a map showing the locations of Dragonfire around the world, and the Joes and Cobra battle over one of the locations in a mountain. Baroness and Gnawgahyde use the Dragonfire to DNA convert Cobra Commander back into human form. The Joes manage to get inside the mountain base, but are flooded out...

  3. Episode 3: Operation Dragonfire (3)

    Sep 18, 1989 · 30 min

    Next location is a jungle temple in South America, and there's three factions: Serpentor, the Joes, and Cobra Commander. Scoop finds out he was tricked into joining Cobra and turns against them. But the Joes discover he's a Cobra. Cobra Commander uses the Dragonfire to turn monkeys in Ape Warriors that attack the Joes...

  4. Episode 4: Operation Dragonfire (4)

    Sep 19, 1989 · 30 min

    Scoop returns to Cobra to try to defeat them. Gnawgahyde steals a Conquests and blasts the Joes. Cobra Commander starts fusing animals with vehicles and creates Python Patrol. Serpentor is defeated and fused with Gnogahide's pet iguana. The Joes return to base while Low Light stays behind. Destro dumps Zarana for the Baroness...

  5. Episode 5: Operation Dragonfire (5)

    Sep 20, 1989 · 30 min

    The final location is a mesa. Cobra links all of the Dragonfire bases together through their satellite to create an energy weapon and to supercharge their vehicles with the Dragonfire energy. Finally the Joes have their own Dragonfire after Freedom finds a Native American man who knows how to active it. Scoops sends the Joes the frequency to disable Cobra's Dragonfire and causes a chain reaction that destroys all of Cobra's Dragonfire bases.

  6. Episode 6: United We Stand

    Sep 25, 1990 · 30 min

    Cobra Commander threatens to unleash a deadly mind numbing gas on the world unless they surrender to Cobra...

  7. Episode 7: Revenge of the Pharaohs

    Sep 26, 1990 · 30 min

    Night Creeper Leader is hit on the head during a battle with the Joes in Egypt and begins to believe he is the reincarnated Pharoah and attempts to take over Egypt...

  8. Episode 8: Granny Dearest

    Sep 27, 1990 · 30 min

    Metal Heads Grandmother comes to visit, who believes he is the leader of Cobra, much to Cobra Commanders disgust...

  9. Episode 9: Victory at Volcania (1)

    Oct 1, 1990 · 30 min

    The Joes are on vacation at Volcania, also known as 'Club Joe', also on the Island of Volcania is General Hawk, who has been reassigned because his superiors believe he is too old. Cobra launches an attack on Volcania and assumes control of the Island, Destro has created new weaponry which Cobra Commander threatens the world with. When they do not meet his demands, Cobra Commander becomes angered and fires on the California River bridge...

  10. Episode 10: Victory at Volcania (2)

    Oct 2, 1990 · 30 min

    The United Nations do not believe Cobra Commander really destroyed the bridge, and send a fleet to Volcania. General Hawk rescues the Joes and they attack the Cobra Command centre hidden within the Volcano, the command centre is destroyed and takes Destros space gun weapon with it. Cobra Commander and his troops pursue the Joes until reinforcements and the UN fleet arrives, allowing the Joes victory once more.

  11. Episode 11: The Nozone Conspiracy

    Oct 4, 1990 · 30 min

    Cobra plans to destroy the Ozone layer and have people buy Cobra Commanders deadly new sun tan lotion...

  12. Episode 12: Pigskin Commandos

    Oct 22, 1990 · 30 min

    The Joes play a football match against Cobra, with Sgt.Slaughter as the ball...

  13. Episode 13: Cold Shoulder

    Oct 10, 1990 · 30 min

    G.I. Joe/Oktober Guard team up with Rampart and Cpt. Krimov to work on a space satellite while Sgt. Slaughter, Sub-Zero and Stretcher monitoring their movements, but Cobra wants it for themselves which led to the capturing of the satellite and the 2 Joes. it up to sub-zero and Stretcher to save them while the Sarge back them up with the troops against cobra attacks.

  14. Episode 14: Injustice and the Cobra Way

    Oct 15, 1990 · 30 min

    Cobra Commander disguises himself as a new superhero named Serpent Man in an effort to humiliate G.I Joe...

  15. Episode 15: General Confusion

    Feb 13, 1991 · 30 min

    When G.I Joe are told they are exceeding government funding they have to report to The Battle World proving grounds to learn how to fight cost efficently under the supervision of Dr.Carday who is secretly Zarana in disguise. Meanwhile Cobra Commander plans to steal a new weapon named 'The General'...

  16. Episode 16: Night of the Creepers

    Oct 16, 1990 · 30 min

    Low Light faces supernatural beings, while Night Creeper Leader plans to regain favour with Cobra Commander...

  17. Episode 17: That's Entertainment

    Oct 18, 1990 · 30 min

    Cobra Commander tries to make a break into the world of stand up comedy by impersonating a famous comedian while planning a trap for the Joes...

  18. Episode 18: I Found You... Evy

    Oct 11, 1990 · 30 min

    Ambush finds his lost love Evy, only to find she has now joined Cobra...

  19. Episode 19: An Officer and a Viperman

    Nov 8, 1990 · 30 min

    Pathfinder, Ambush and Topside infiltrate a Cobra training camp when Cobra suddenly seems to know their every move...

  20. Episode 20: D-Day at Alcatraz (1)

    Nov 5, 1990 · 30 min

    Cobra Commander, Destro and Metal Head allow themselves to be imprisoned in Alcatraz so that they can gain access to a highly powerful weapon on the Comstock Lode submarine outside of the prison...

  21. Episode 21: D-Day at Alcatraz (2)

    Nov 6, 1990 · 30 min

    The Cobras escape from Alcatraz and prepare to use their new weapon to take over the world, now GI Joe has to stop their most devious scheme yet...

  22. Episode 22: The Mind Mangler

    Nov 8, 1990 · 30 min

    Duke is captured by Gnawgahyde who uses a device called the Mind Mangler to try and break into Dukes brain, but a girl named Megan helps Duke escape, little does he know that Megan is really a disguised Zarana planning to steal GI Joes secrets...

  23. Episode 23: BIOK

    Oct 18, 1990 · 30 min

    Destro creates a super computer named BIOK, which infiltrates every computer system in the world, but soon BIOK turns on them and has plans of its own to take over the world...

  24. Episode 24: Stuck on You

    Feb 11, 1991 · 30 min

    After a battle, Cobra Commander and Pathfinder become lost in the Jungle with a enraged Gorilla in pursuit...

Season 420 ep. · 1991–1992
  1. Episode 1: The Eliminator

    Sep 23, 1991 · 30 min

    Overkill recieves an upgrade and becomes The Eliminator, and sets out to destroy the Joes.

  2. Episode 2: Chunnel

    Sep 24, 1991 · 30 min

    At the unveiling of a new tunnel between England and France, Cobra Commander kidnaps the Queen of England and steals the crown jewels, proclaiming himself King...

  3. Episode 3: A is for Android

    Oct 29, 1991 · 30 min

    Cobra replaces General Hawk with an android replica...

  4. Episode 4: El Dorado, The Lost City Of Gold

    Sep 30, 1991 · 30 min

    Grunt and Cobra Commander by search for El Dorado, The Lost City of Gold.

  5. Episode 5: Long Live Rock & Roll (1)

    Oct 2, 1991 · 30 min

    Cobra plans to destroy New York city by using subliminal messages in Rock and Roll music.

  6. Episode 6: Long Live Rock & Roll (2)

    Oct 3, 1991 · 30 min

    The Joes race to stop Cobras Rock and Roll scheme...

  7. Episode 7: The Sludge Factor (1)

    Oct 7, 1991 · 30 min

    Cobra joins forces with the evil Cesspool to pollute the worlds food supplies, and the Joes form the Eco Warriors to combat this new threat...

  8. Episode 8: The Sludge Factor (2)

    Oct 8, 1991 · 30 min

    The Eco Warriors race to stop Cobra Commander and Cesspool from taking control of the world from their volcano base...

  9. Episode 9: Messenger from the Deep

    Oct 21, 1991 · 30 min

    Cobra Commander believes a hidden city under the sea will make him rich, but both the Joes and Cobra find out it holds a more dangerous secret...

  10. Episode 10: Infested Island

    Sep 23, 1991 · 30 min

    Cesspool and Cobra Commander attempt to take over the world with giant insects.

  11. Episode 11: The Greatest Evil (1)

    Oct 29, 1991 · 30 min

    Cobra and GI. Joe team up to fight a Drug dealer...

  12. Episode 12: The Greatest Evil (2)

    Oct 7, 1991 · 30 min

    While Duke and his younger brother Falcon have a conflict of their own, Cobra Commander plans to steal the Drug Lord Headmans money reserves.

  13. Episode 13: The Sword

    Sep 25, 1991 · 30 min

    Storm Shadow, Snake Eyes and Night Creeper leader all race for posession of the mythical sword of destiny...

  14. Episode 14: Keyboard Warriors

    Nov 14, 1991 · 30 min

    Destro creates a new computer system named the ASP which can control Cobra weapons around the world.

  15. Episode 15: Shadow of a Doubt

    Nov 6, 1991 · 30 min

    Cobra Commander attempts to lure Storm Shadow back into Cobra...

  16. Episode 16: Cobra World

    Oct 28, 1991 · 30 min

    Cobra Commander tries to convince the world he has gone straight and opens his own theme park...

  17. Episode 17: Kindergarten Commandos

    Nov 19, 1991 · 30 min

    Cobra takes control of a school in the hope of training new Cobra recruits from a young age.

  18. Episode 18: Metal Head's Reunion

    Nov 19, 1991 · 30 min

    Metal-Head goes to his high school reunion in an effort to get a secret armor formula for Cobra...

  19. Episode 19: Basic Training

    Jan 7, 1992 · 30 min

    In a clip show, General Hawk advises the audience what it takes to become a GI.Joe.

  20. Episode 20: The Legend of Metal Head

    Jan 20, 1992 · 30 min

    In another clip show episode, Metal Head relates his time in Cobra to the audience.